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Christakis and his colleagues have conducted research on the risk factors of early television exposure, detailing an increased risk for the onset of attention, health, and behavioral issues in adolescents. [11] He is the co-author of The Elephant in the Living Room: Make Television Work for Your Kids ( 2006). [12]
Specifically, a 2011 nationally representative survey of American parents of children from birth to age 8 suggests that TV accounted for 51% of children's total daily screen time, while mobile devices only accounted for 4%. [9] However, in 2017, TV dropped down to 42% of children's total daily screen time, and mobile media devices jumped up to 35%.
CIPA requires K-12 schools and libraries using E-Rate discounts to operate "a technology protection measure with respect to any of its computers with Internet access that protects against access through such computers to visual depictions that are obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors". Such a technology protection measure must be ...
Children use, on average, 27 hours of internet a week and it is on the increase. This leads to an increased risk of insomnia. [39] Screen time is affecting children in many ways, not only are children at an increased risk of insomnia but they are also at risk of having eye and health developing problems.
[22] [23] For every hour of adult-targeted television or movies watched by children when they were 6 to 8 years old, there was a 33% increased risk of becoming sexually active in early adolescence. "Children have neither the life experience nor the brain development to fully differentiate between a reality they are moving toward and a fiction ...
Television stations and cable providers would be required to maintain and publish summaries of the children's educational programming that they broadcast, defined as "programming that furthers the positive development of children 16 years of age and under in any respect, including the child's intellectual/cognitive or social/emotional needs".
Children may drop their close attachment to their opposite-sex parent and become more attached to their same-sex parent. [10] During this time, children, especially girls, show increased awareness of social norms regarding sex, nudity, and privacy. [17] Children may use sexual terms to test adult reaction. [10] "Bathroom humor" (jokes and ...
Similarly, deaf children's language skills vary depending upon how and when they acquired a first language (early vs. late, visual vs. spoken, from fluent users or new users of the language). This mix of access to phonetic and linguistic information will shape the journey a deaf child takes to literacy. [104]